Chemical and biological warfare
Subtitle: a comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen
By: Eric Croddy
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780387950761
Subjects: Biological Warfare; Chemischer Krieg; Massenvernichtungswaffe; Chemical warfare; Biological warfare; ABC-Waffen; ABC-Schutz; Chemical Warfare Agents; Terrorismus; Zivilschutz
Description: The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and very easy to hide, and organizations of just a few dozen people are capable of deploying potentially devastating attacks with them. While in the twentieth century most of our arms-control effort focused, rightly, on nuclear arsenals, in the twenty-first century CBW will almost certainly require just as much attention. This book defines the basics of CBW for the concerned citizen, including non-alarmist scientific descriptions of the weapons and their antidotes, methods of deployment and defensive response, and the likelihood in the current global political climate of additional proliferation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Gas, bugs, and common sense. Chapter 1: The fog of war; title: Chapter 2: Who has these weapons?; title: Chapter 3: Threats and responses; title: Part two: Chemical agents. Chapter 4: Basic concepts; title: Chapter 5: Chemical warfare: a brief history; title: Chapter 6: Control and disarmament; title: Part three: Biological agents. Chapter 7: Basic concepts; title: Chapter 8: Biological warfare: a brief history; title: Chapter 9: Control and disarmament; title: Chapter 10: Vaccination and biological warfare.